buttes

The community is named for a group of four large buttes to its west.Four Buttes was founded in 1926 as a stop on the Great Northern Railway.…

Get out somewhere, where men are alive and doing things.Nothing is moving here but the snow and those two black buttes out there.They keep crowding closer through the smother, watching everything I do.…Cited from The Rim of the Desert, by Ada Woodruff Anderson

I was glad, though, when Cora Belle's home became a part of our beautiful picture.It is situated among great red buttes, and there is a blue lake back of the house.Around the lake is a fringe of willows.…Cited from Letters of a Woman Homesteader, by Elinore Pruitt Stewart

The mules were straining over the last hill.On either side only a few of the buttes were still visible.They stood out in the moonlight as cleanly cut as the bows of great battleships.…Cited from Ranson's Folly, by Richard Harding Davis

Heavy Collar had followed the river up, and had gone a long distance out of his way; and when he awoke from his sleep he too started straight for the Belly River Buttes, as he had said he would.When his party reached the Buttes, one of them went up on top of the hill to watch.After a time, as he looked down the river, he saw two persons coming, and as they came nearer, he saw that one of them was Heavy Collar, and by his side was a woman.…Cited from Blackfoot Lodge Tales, by George Bird Grinnell

Travelling The canyon's length requires a river journey of 277 miles, through canyons varying in distance from less than a half mile to more than eighteen miles apart, and through depths reaching nearly 600 feet.Early visitors named many of the large buttes after ancient gods.…

All was so peaceful that horse-thieves and desperate men seemed too remote to think about.Presently we crossed the creek and headed our course due north toward the desert and the buttes.I saw that we were not going right to reach Mrs. Louderer's ranch, so I asked where we were supposed to be going.…Cited from Letters of a Woman Homesteader, by Elinore Pruitt Stewart

In these valleys and on these hills was the game.Daylight of the day I would tell about found us just at the edge of the little buttes.Down one of the slopes the growing half light revealed two oryx feeding, magnificent big creatures, with straight rapier horns three feet in length.…Cited from The Land of Footprints, by Stewart Edward White #4

And over yonder is where they dig up them prehistoric villages.And those buttes over there used to be volcanoes, before they laid off the job.…Cited from Partners of Chance, by Henry Herbert Knibbs

And I can't go; I haven't heard from Tisdale.I never have told her about those buttes.It's unusual; she might not believe it; she would worry and think, perhaps, I am growing like Barbour.…Cited from The Rim of the Desert, by Ada Woodruff Anderson

Take your own time to think it over; take it up with McVickar, if you want to.Then, when you get things fixed, wire me one word to Twin Buttes.…Cited from The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush, by Francis Lynde

After a chase of several miles Mr. McNaney finally overhauled his cow and killed her, which brought the number of buffaloes taken on the fall hunt up to twenty-two.We spent the night at the Buffalo Buttes and returned to camp the next day.…Cited from The Extermination of the American Bison, by William T. Hornaday

Then they went hunting, and Old Man led them on the high buttes, where it was very cold.Cited from Blackfoot Lodge Tales, by George Bird Grinnell

Arrowheads are scattered about, many of them very beautiful; flint chips are strewn over the ground in great profusion, and the trails are well worn.Starting after dinner, we pass some beautiful buttes on the left, many of which are very symmetrical.They are chiefly composed of gypsum, of many hues, from light gray to slate color; then pink, purple, and brown beds.…Cited from Canyons of the Colorado, by J. W. Powell

On the walls, and back many miles into the country, numbers of monument-shaped buttes are observed.Cited from Canyons of the Colorado, by J. W. Powell

Within Black Horse Lake was a possible island which is turtle shaped.It is one of the many buttes in the Great Falls region.It is around 200 feet higher than the elevation below Black Horse Lake.…

Half a mile down the river she could see a corner of Ben's cabin, a section of the corral fence, and one of the small outbuildings.Opposite the cabin, across the river, rose the buttes that met her eyes always when she came to the cabin door.This hill upon which she sat was one that she saw often, when in the evening, watching the setting sun, she followed its golden rays with her eyes.…Cited from The Two-Gun Man, by Charles Alden Seltzer

It was the last great drove of buffalo to cross the river, as they were nearly all killed off in a very short time after.About sundown he decided to camp under some high buttes.He built a fire, removed his dress and then, in his stocking feet, climbed to the heights in the hope of seeing some habitation; but as far as the eye could reach, there was no sign of anything human.…Cited from The Story of Paul Boyton, by Paul Boyton

The highway gives service though very rural country in Baca County through Two Buttes to the junction with US 287 and US 385 about 7 miles north of Springfield.The highway's maintenance is served by Two Buttes, the only town on its route.The town is the largest town for many miles in any direction.…

It is the county seat of Boyd County.Butte was named from the small hills, or buttes, near the town site.…